. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . rs support for the succeeding sixty years. died in 1764. To him succeeded, after a space of two years, the Cutting, the progenitor of the family of thatname in this State. He was educated at Cambridge,England. Seeking to benefit his fortune he emigratedto America and accepted the position of overseer of aplantation in Virginia. While so engaged he was recog-nized by a clergyman of the Church of England, for-merly a fellow student at Cambridge. By the ki
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . rs support for the succeeding sixty years. died in 1764. To him succeeded, after a space of two years, the Cutting, the progenitor of the family of thatname in this State. He was educated at Cambridge,England. Seeking to benefit his fortune he emigratedto America and accepted the position of overseer of aplantation in Virginia. While so engaged he was recog-nized by a clergyman of the Church of England, for-merly a fellow student at Cambridge. By the kindly ex-ertions of this clergyman he obtained a position moresuitable for his attainments and abilities; that of tutorin the classics in Kings (now Columbia) College, NewYork city, which had been established in 1754. In thisposition he remained until 1763, when he returned toEngland an applicant for holy orders; and, his papersbeing found eminently satisfactory, he was ordained bythe bishop of London in December 1763 a deacon, andsome time afterward a priest. He returned to this ST. GEORGES CHURCH AND RECTORY. 177. St. Georges Church Rectory; Built 1793. country in 1764 and was for nearly two years missionaryat New Brunswick, N. J. From thence he was trans-ferred to Hempstead. His career was peaceful until thebreaking out of the Revolutionary war, when he was sub-jected to some of the trials of that stormy period. Yethe escaped better than many others, because the peopleof his parish were almost all tories and a British force was on the ground nearly all the time. But he found,like many other loyalists, that the British soldier did notcarefully discriminate between friend and foe. More thanonce the rector and his vestry had to complain of out-rages commited. When, at length, the arms of the Con-tinental army prevailed, and the independence of theStates was acknowledged, Mr. Cutting found himself in so
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